Health Insurers Own Tobacco Stocks Worth Nearly $4.5 Billion

It kinda makes sense: health insurers know tobacco sickens people, and so as long as people are smoking, why not profit from the killer? It's what David Himmelstein, a co-author of the study, calls "the combined taxidermist and veterinarian approach: either way you get your dog back."

Topics:  david himmelstein   tobacco   health insurers   people   
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